About the Authors

Zongxiang Zhan

Affiliation National Research Center of Rapeseed Engineering and Technology and College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Chinedu Charles Nwafor

Affiliation National Research Center of Rapeseed Engineering and Technology and College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Zhaoke Hou

Affiliation National Research Center of Rapeseed Engineering and Technology and College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Jianfang Gong

Affiliation National Research Center of Rapeseed Engineering and Technology and College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Bin Zhu

Affiliation College of Life Science, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, China

Yingfen Jiang

Affiliation Crop Research Institute, Anhui Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hefei, China

Yongming Zhou

Affiliation National Research Center of Rapeseed Engineering and Technology and College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Jiangsheng Wu

Affiliation National Research Center of Rapeseed Engineering and Technology and College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Zhongyun Piao

Affiliation Department of Horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, China

Yue Tong

Affiliation Yichang Academy of Agriculture Science, Yichang, China

Chao Liu

Affiliation National Research Center of Rapeseed Engineering and Technology and College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Chunyu Zhang

zhchy@mail.hzau.edu.cn

Affiliation National Research Center of Rapeseed Engineering and Technology and College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CZ. Data curation: ZZ CCN. Formal analysis: ZZ CCN. Funding acquisition: CZ. Investigation: ZZ ZH JG BZ YJ YT. Methodology: ZZ CZ. Project administration: CL CZ. Resources: JW ZP. Supervision: CZ. Writing – original draft: CCN ZZ. Writing – review & editing: CCN YZ CL CZ.